Tool



B. F. BAIRD.

TOOL.

APPLICATION mu APR. 14, 9120.

v 1,375,547. I Patented Apr.19,1921.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

Application filed April 14, 1920. Serial No. 373,758.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. BAIRD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Hollidaysburg, in the county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in tools, and more particularly to a tool designed for use in connection with the removal of rivets, an object of the invention being to provide a tool which supports the plate, or plates, on which the rivet is positioncd, so as to prevent bending or bulging of said plates during the operation of removing the rivet.

A further object is to provide a tool of the character stated, which will receive the removed or discharged rivet, and permit the latter to fall to the floor or ground without endangering persons, or property.

Heretofore in the operation of removing rivets, an ordinary sledge has been employed, which is held against the plate, adjacent the rivet. When the rivet is drawn out it frequently flies some distance, and is a source of danger. Furthermore the plates are frequently bent during the rivet-removing operation, and it is the purpose of my improved tool to overcome these difliculties.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view partly in section and partly in elevation illustrating my improved tool in operative position.

Fig. 2 is an end View of the tool.

1 and 2'represent plates, and 3 an ordinary rivet located therein.

To remove the rivet 3 one of the heads 4 is cutoff and a suitable tool 5 located against the shank of the rivet to force the same out of the plates 1 and 2 by means of blows imparted to tool 5.

6 represents my improved tool which is of relatively heavy metal, and is provided with a handle 7 at right angles thereto. This tool 6 has somewhat the appearance of the ordinary sledge, and in fact one end 8 may be used for that purpose if desired.

The tool 6 is provided at one end with a longitudinal bore 9 which is appreciably larger than the head 4: of the rivet 3. A transverse opening or passage 10 is provided in the tool, and communicates with the bore 2 through this passage 10 the rivet can The operation. is as follows:

The tool 6 is positioned against the plate 2, with the end of the bore 9 receiving the head Al of rivet 3. While the tool is held against the plate 2, the rivet 3 is forced out of the plates 1 and 2 into the bore 9 and the momentum of the rivet is checked by the engagement with the wall of opening or passage 1.0 and will fall to the ground.

it will thus be noted that the tool will not only prevent injury from flying rivets, but will sustain the metal plates during the rivetremoving operation.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form of the parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a tool comprising a handle, a sledge disposed at right angles to the handle and connected at its intermediate portion thereto, said sledge including at one end a solid striking portion, said sledge at its other end including a tapered head having a longitudinal rivetreceiving bore therein and having a transverse bore communicating with said longitudinal bore, said longitudinally bored end being unobstructed opposite said end and at the sides thereof to permit the tool to bear against a plate extending any distance beyond all sides of the tool.

BENJAMIN F.1BAIRDQ 

